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justabooklovingmetalhead · 1 month

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New Releases of April 2024!

I’ve been really excited for Dear Wendy for so long! Can’t wait for it to come out :) I have no clue how I’m going to find time to read everything coming out this month tho 😅

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harringtown · 9 months

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HI HELLO okay i know i vanished from the face of the earth, and i dont have a great excuse, but it was for a reason!!! drumroll… im being published!!!! my debut novel is coming April 2nd 2024 from Penguin Teen, followed by a second novel in the summer of 2025! this book would 100000% not have been possible without yalls support of my writing. whether you showed up a month or six years ago, yall helped me build confidence to create my own worlds, and now i get to share it! i cant promise ill be working on any new fic rn, as im on deadlines, but i did want to share w yall and thank you for everything youve done for me over the years! if you want to keep in touch, find me on twitter (@abrokeworm) and if you feel like it, add my book on goodreads!

#me rolling in w my big news way too late but #its been Very hectic but very fun #but like. HECTIC #but im so fucking excited and grateful #brooke talks #hearts still beating

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ash-and-books · 1 month

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Rating: 4.5/5

Book Blurb: Gripping, romantic, and impossible to put down, this dark and immersive post-apocalyptic debut YA novel is about two teen girls who loved each other before the end of the world — and before one of them became infected with the virus that turned her into a monster.

Perfect for fans of Krystal Sutherland, Adam Silvera, and the darkly human side of the HBOMax horror-drama, The Last of Us.

Seventeen-year-old Mara is dead—mostly.

Infected with a virus that brought the dead back to life and the world to its knees, she wakes up in a facility to learn a treatment for the disease has been found. No longer a Tick, Mara is placed in an experimental resettlement program. But her recovery is complicated by her destination: she’s sent to live with the best friend she hasn’t seen since the world ended—and since their first and only kiss. Seventeen-year-old Rory is alive—barely.

With impaired mobility from an injury and a dead sister, Rory’s nightmares are just as monstrous as the Ticks that turned her former best friend. Even after the Island—one of a handful of surviving communities—rebuilds itself, Rory is prepared for the Ticks to return at any time. She never expected them to come in the form of the only girl she’s ever loved.

As the girls struggle with their pasts and the people they’ve become, the Island’s soldiers go rogue and come after the Ticks and anyone harboring them. With the Island’s fragile peace in the balance, Rory and Mara must lean on each other to survive—or risk losing the girl they love all over again.

Review:

The Last of Us meets a love story about two girls dealing with the aftermath of of a virus taking over the world and what happens when one of them is infected... and now is being let back out into the world. Mara and Rory were best friends, they've even thought about being more... until a virus known as "the Tick" happened turning people into flesh hungry zombies essentially and Mara gets infected... and that was two years ago... and now she has been rehabilitated and been put on a treatment program to treat her disease. Mara is put into an experimental resettlement program... and who better than to be her host family than her godparents... aka the same family with her old best friend and the girl she loved who she knows now hates her lives. Mara is still traumatized from what happened to her, she remembers everything she did as a Tick... everyone's she's killed including her parents. Rory is reeling from losing her younger sister, having sene her been killed, and she has impaired mobility from an injury. She is still plagued by nightmares and she's dreading facing Mara again. Rory has spent her time preparing to face off against Ticks, what she didn't expect was facing it in the form of the only girl she's ever loved. Both girls struggle with dealing with their pasts and the girls they have become since then, all the while the island's soldiers have gone wrong and are coming after the rehabilitated ticks and anyone who is harboring them... with the leader of the island's soldier particularly going after Rory and Mara, the girls will have to learn to lean on each other and grow past their differences in order to survive this new horror... and maybe fall for the new girls they are now. This was the perfect read for anyone who loved The Last of Us or loves a post-apocalyptic Romance!! The angst was real and the tension was so good. The world building in this one was fantastic and I loved how the book has you so interested in what was happening all the way to the end of the book. The romance was so well done and I loved that the girls were both healing and trying to get to know the new version of the person they loved. This is a fun read and I would absolutely recommend it!

*Thanks Netgalley and PENGUIN GROUP Penguin Young Readers Group, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

#book review #bookish #book #sapphic books #lgbtq reads #the last of us #hearts still beating

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nmqii · 1 month

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#twd #the walking dead #the walking dead episode 7x8 #hearts still beating #except for the guy #i dont think his hearts beating no more #norman reedus #daryl #daryl dixon #my food...#twd season 7 #twd 7x8

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corioheinous · 25 days

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Alien Stage is so crazy to me because it’s. It’s about many things but what stands out to me the most is how the children of Anakt Garden during times of extreme hardship and fear and literal alien colonization, instead of looking toward some omniscient being(s) for salvation or succumbing to cynicism/nihilism, they look toward each other to find hope. All it takes is a connection with one person, just one instance of butterflies in a society where things like love and romance are all but obsolete, and now they’re making that person their God their reason to live and breathe and wake up every morning. (Or, in some cases, to give up their lives. If it means protecting the life of their beloved.) And it’s like. It’s as if what sets us apart from aliens or simply what makes us human is our capacity to whole-heartedly, unabashedly love one another. Even to the end of ourselves.

#because the evidence of me having lived and loved is in your still beating heart #Ohhh im so normal #alien stage #alnst #ivantill #mizisua #hyuluka

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thoodleoo · 2 years

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one of the funniest sections of pliny the elder's natural histories to me is in book 30 when pliny excitedly says that moles are the animal that magicians love most and then goes on to explain that it's because moles are creatures becursed and despised by nature itself

#tagamemnon #their existence far from the warm embrace of a loving god or whatever makes them great in remedies #anyway if you want to become a diviner just swallow a fresh still-beating mole heart #pliny the elder #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

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ruporas · 1 year

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i’ll find you again in every universe. let us be a little more honest, let us have a little more time.

#vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun #despite it all though badlands rumble is like. the only universe where we get wolfwood thinking vash died first... and i think that means a #lot to their relationship and how it may bloom if there was more to badlands rumble considering vash literally saw wolfwood carrying a piece #of vash after his supposed death. u know! despite the short time they were together vash still meant so much to wolfwood that he couldn't #just move on or forget him in anyway. needed to keep a piece of him for himself and the rest of his days. but ofc vash lives and wolfwood #was like ill beat ur fucking ass into tomorrow. there's just so much honesty in vash being able to see that gesture bc he wouldnt know #otherwise just how much he might mean to him. ANYWAY. trimax with with the eternal pining featuring the two chapters where imo #where the both of them really fell for each other... i wrote my thoughts about this on another comic i did before #but vash solidifying his feelings during the hospital arc -- ww solidifies his when he realizes his allegiances are permanently with vash #98 my lovelies but also to me they are so one-sided bc ww pined like no tomorrow and vash only realizes after ep 23?24? his heart did tickle #whenever ww complimented his smile though #and tristamp vw my beloveds. it really just feels like they get the chance to be closer and closer and more honest with each other #with every version that comes about. in trimax they knew how little time they had but struggled so desperately to get closer. in 98 ww felt #more willing to forsake for vash. in badlands rumble theyre Angry but as mentioned earlier ^ more blatant truth... due to circumstances #mainly but has the chance to lead to discussions and tristamp literally. first day of knowing each other ww saves vash - 2 days later vash #saves ww like. Man. AND NOW THEY MAY POTENTIALLY GET EVEN CLOSER!!!! with s2....#ruporas art

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dyoungs · 27 days

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MATTHEW GRAY GUBLER AS CHIP TAYLOR ↳ 68 KILL (2017) (dir. TRENT HAAGA)

#i didnt do sex scenes or when he's all bloody & beat however he is still pretty and a pathetic loserboy of my heart <3333 #002 #68 kill #chip taylor #matthew gray gubler #mgg #awekslook #niniblr #heyteo #dailyflicks #cinemapix #filmtvcentral #m:matthew gray gubler #other #<- filter if u only want kpop! also im not gonna be posting non-kpop a lot LOL if i ever get rlly into it i'll make a sb #*500

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montereybayaquarium · 10 months

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Fun fact: Hammerhead sharks are exceptional at playing hide-and-sea-k. 🙈🏃

A hammerhead’s eyes are located at the extreme ends of its very wide head — giving it a fintastic field of vision. They can see above, below, and even behind them! 👀

If that wasn’t enough of an advantage, they also have special electroreceptors (called ampullae of Lorenzini) that can sense weak electrical fields created by the muscular movements of prey — even one as invisible as the beating heart of an animal hidden in the sand.

Next time you’re playing a game of hide and seek, manifest your inner hammerhead shark to win!

#monterey bay aquarium #happy shark awareness day #be still my beating heart #now you see me now you still see me

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floriianthefool · 4 months

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on longing, romance, and every in-between.

References:

1: painting by Filippo Lippi

2: John Koenig 'The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows'

3: painting by Anthony van Dyck, 'Portrait of Mary and William of Orange'

4: uncertain, will be added once found

5: painting by Luis Caballero

6: 'Elegy for My Sadness' by Chen Chen

7: a fragment of ourselves returning v, 2018 by Beatrice Wanjiku

8: Richard Siken

9: uncertain, will be added once found

10: Tumblr post by @mothicalspoken

11: uncertain, will be added once found

12: Joan Tierney

#Attempted another web weaving #web weaving #web weave #on love #on longing #on yearning #floriian: like the soft beating of a heart in a still chest (fit into me like a missing rib)#An attempt at exploring the dynamic between Bruce and the Reader-insert #Everything is interchangeable #The quotes are both of them towards the other #The art as well #Attempted to show the change from what we have at first #Shying away #Both Bruce and Reader from each other #And then slowly coming towards each other #Together #It's important that none of this is ever said aloud #They don't even consciously think this #It's all in the subconscious #What neither of them say but will feel #The refusal to voice it #To say it #To have it become real and give it a name and give it life #It's all about control over themselves and the world around them #Just perfect for eachother 🥰#Also important to note that to a certain extent they're both very much/somewhat aware of how the other feels but once again neither of them #Say anything despite slowly acting differently towards each other #Just a short web weave exploring their dynamic

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ensign-spider · 1 year

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"I remember going back and going, ‘No, wait a minute, this isn’t a woman’s role.’ This is … ’cause you gotta think 25 years ago, what I was getting was, you know, “Kids, get off that couch!” and sitcoms and really light stuff where [you were] the girlfriend or the victim or the killer. Nothing well-rounded. And this comes along and I was thinking, ‘Wait a minute this is a man’s role. They made a mistake.’ And when I found out it wasn’t a mistake I was so excited I remember, I had a dark green shift dress … and I went out and got a pair of Doc Martens, and the Doc Martens kind of informed me, where I was and who I was. I listened to a lot of rap back then, I still listen to rap, but I really pounded it in my car on the way to my audition, and that was my prep for it and I walked in and I was fully Kira when I walked in the room."

nana visitor on auditioning for kira nerys (the alpha quadrant, 2018)

#nana visitor in doc martens #be still my beating heart #kira nerys #nana visitor #star trek #ds9 #star trek deep space 9 #star trek ds9 #star trek behind the scenes

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mayasaura · 2 years

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The series has so far been consistent in presenting a merging of souls as something that can't be undone. The part of Gideon that Harrow took, I don't know if she can give it back. I don't know if Gideon would even want her to.

Maybe I'm a romantic, but the ideal ending to me, the most satisfying conclusion, would be Harrow balancing the scale by giving a piece of her own living soul to become a part of Gideon. Not Gideon's heart returned, but Harrow's heart in return. We've seen lyctorhood as a one-sided consumption, and we've seen it as a mutual consummation. We've still never seen it tried as a reciprocal exchange.

#this is how perfect lyctorhood can still w- *gunshot*#for real tho #the part of Gideon Harrow still has is symbolically her heart right?#what are we even doing here if Harrow doesn't rip her own heart out of her chest to teach it to beat in Gideon's?#what is the point of any of this if the empty parts of Gideon don't get filled up with Harrow's love #the locked tomb #ntn spoilers #nona the ninth #griddlehark #harrow nonagesimus #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #alex I'll take 'neurodivergent harrowhark' for 500

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morganbritton132 · 9 months

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David knows who Dustin is as soon as he walks into the gym for Career Day. Mainly because there’s a picture on Steve’s desk of him but also because the two of them are bickering with each other. Real sibling behavior.

When he gets closer, he hears that they’re bickering about batteries. Apparently it’s always the goddamn batteries.

David is noticed almost immediately and gives a little wave before asking if there’s anything he can help with. Steve pulls him in and then snaps his fingers at Dustin specifically because it annoys him, “Dustin, this my friend, David. Be nice to him and he might find a place for your lizard -“

“It’s an iguana.”

“-while I figure out what the hell is going on over there…. Mrs Bennett, can I help you?”

Dustin goes back to untangling a bunch of wires when Steve leaves so David awkwardly throws out, “I could tell you guys were brothers. You look alike.”

“We look alike?” Dustin says slowly, amused. When David just nods, he adds, “Steve’s adopted.”

“I’m not adopted!” Steve calls from three booths down.

“You could’ve been!”

“I still think you look alike,” David says, deciding to double down on that thought even if it’s not true. They look passable related, maybe. “So, uh. Pretty cool that Eddie came to help you set up. I know he’s - Steve’s mentioned that he’s busy with his….”

David hesitates just enough to acknowledge he doesn’t know what Eddie does only that it sometimes involves a red carpet, “….his movies.”

“Movies?” Dustin says in a tone that clearly says David guessed wrong. He turns around in Steve’s direction and asks loudly, “This guy is supposed to be you friend??”

David thinks to himself, Eddie must work in tv then.

#no Tiktok in this Tiktok saga #Just Steve’s work friends still trying to figure out who the hell Eddie is #Claudia Henderson would’ve adopted Steve in a heart beat #eddie munson tiktok saga #steve harrington #eddie munson #dustin henderson

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xoxoemynn · 2 months

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Hello OFMD crew! I love you and I'm happy you're here. 💕

#ofmd #our flag means death #I know it's been a rough few months with a lot of ups and downs #and just perusing the timelines I'm seeing a lot of people really feeling the Big Sads again #which is so so valid and I think everyone should really feel whatever they need to feel right now #but also know fandom isn't going anywhere #the show may be taking a breather but our heart is still beating strong 💗#sending so much love and hugs #I am grateful to all of you and my inbox/DMs are always open if you need someone to talk to

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itzsassha · 6 months

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